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During this session we learned about Impresso. There are two Impresso projects. The first one is called ‘Media Monitoring of the Past (2017–2020)’, it’s the project we talked the most during the session. The second is called ‘Impresso II. Media Monitoring of the Past – Beyond Borders (2023–2027), this one was only briefly mentioned. We learned that Impresso was originally a Swiss-Luxembourgish collaboration, now in the second projects they are incorporating other countries as well. Impresso I digitalise newspapers from Luxembourg and Swisse from the 17th century to the 21st century. Sadly, the newspaper collections are pretty unbalanced in size. Some years have much more newspapers than others. Especially for the older newspapers, since many of them disappeared before being digitalized. In recent years the copyright is an issue. Since the site has collections in French, German, Luxembourgish and English sometimes the results of the ‘NGRAMS’ (used to compare the appearance of terms in a year, example ‘greve’ ‘streik’) can be misleading because the number of collected newspapers in the different languages can be very different per year.
We were divided into groups to explore the different functionalities of Impresso. My group choose to try out the ‘NGRAMS’ we tried with comparing the results for two terms for witchcraft, ‘sorcellerie’ and ‘Hexerei’. We applied the language filter to see only Luxembourgish articles, it showed us 8 results around the early 20th century. We also tried the country filter to see how many articles were published here when and what language German or French.
At the end of the session, we were really quickly introduced to GitHub and how it works to make our own files with the coding language ‘markdown’.

## Summary (Reflexion) Session 5 "Maps/StoryMaps", 16 October 2024

In this session about maps, we got a brief introduction on what maps are, what type of maps there are and how and why to use it in historical research.
Then we were divided into groups to explore different sites with maps and then do a story map about it. My group worked on the site ATLASCINE it’s a site combining audiovisual storytelling with transcriptions and a map.
For the story map we did it quite simply, we used the mode ‘récit’. We worked with simple text and explained ATLASCINE by answering 4 questions. We also inserted some screen shots in our text he to have a visual representation. The insertion of images is very simple more than on Word. Inserting a legend is also simpler because the option shows up automatically on Story maps on Words it doesn’t. Even though we only used the text option and image option for this exercise, there are many more available.
There are Classique options like the insertion of text, buttons (on which the reader can click and will be transported to a site with a URL), a separator, a table and a code. There is also multimedia content that can be inserted, like the images we used, a collection of images that are interlinked, even videos and audios. With the option ‘Balayer’ we can simplify the comparison of two maps for example for the readers. There is also the option chronologies which helps illustrate a series of events. Then there is the immersive content like map tours for example and also the option to insert various maps. All in all this site is very useful and quite easy to use.
The group that worked on the ‘John Snow Map’ used a few other options than my group, they used text and images but the image of the map changes while we scroll down the text. This is a good function because the show is always the same map but with different information highlighted on the map. Which makes it easier to understand.

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